Saturday, December 20, 2008

I think it is time to clarify something - curvy is not a symbol of all that is "Playboy" and "King Magazine." On some level many men automatically equate a woman with breasts/a butt/or both with the images they see in X-rated photographs. And yet, a Paris Hilton-esque figure is more lauded for a statusque presence to be admired (rather than gawked/lusted after). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and I believe beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. However, I think society today has taken curve to the utmost extreme of raunchiness. "Video girls" on music television are another form of denigrating the beauty of feminine curve to the most base level of raw sexuality - and I do not consider that to be "appreciating" the female form - it is distorting it in order to appease an appetite for visual gratification.

Having curves should not be equated with sex - it should be equated with the beauty of womanly form. And the two are linked, but they are not the same. Appreciating a woman's body for its beauty is on a much ligher level of adoration than simply lusting after her for her "assets". Perhaps it is time to redefine how we think about curves. Most women have them - let them be adored, rather than thrown into the trenches of raunchiness-supreme...